Nobuhiko Obayashi Movies

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on...

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his...

Tanaka Yoshio, an ordinary salaryman, is always eager to impress his girlfriend Reiko, but his wallet is always empty. His only lifeline is his...

Nobuhiko Obayashi's short experimental film shows off persistence in film editing in the early 60s.

A comprehensive document of the six-month production of "Casting Blossoms to the Sky," mixing truth and fiction.

This is a humorous depiction of the escapades between a young lady who is forced into a political marriage and a university student who falls in love...

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.

A young couple go on a picnic in the forest, where the woman reveals that she is pregnant.

Special message from director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

Making of Nobuhiko Obayashi's TV Program in 1980 called...

An experimental film edited from footage of the Japanese countryside.

Nobuhiko Obayashi's 2001 work "From the theme of Mahoroba". Obayashi filmed the works of Genjiro Ohno, a photographer who has been photographing the...

A non-narrative tribute to the seaside town of Onomichi, where Obayashi grew up and where most of these films were made.

A short film by Obayashi Nobuhiko of a collection of photos by Shinoyama Kishin of the Rio Carnival.

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

A promotional movie that was shown to Kirin Brewery factory visitors at the time. Japanese history and family memories intertwine with a musical...